John Milton Quotes

And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.

John Milton

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• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
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• I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.

  

  Felicia Day
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• I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.

  

  Abby Wambach
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• And our dreams are who we are.

  

  Barbara Sher
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• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

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• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
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• Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
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• I'm such a perfectionist.

  

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• North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.

  

  Barbara Demick
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• Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

  

  Beck
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• I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Family
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• I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

  

  Oscar Levant
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• All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Good
  • Work
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• I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
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• Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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• I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible.

  

  Vik Muniz
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• I had gross morning sickness til about 15 weeks and then gestational diabetes, and most annoyingly, from about week 20, I had pelvis issues, which saw me on crutches for the last five weeks of the pregnancy and has since developed into full-blown Osteitis Pubis and pelvic instability.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
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• Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.

  

  Halston
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  • Right

• Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• I knew you'd come,Claire.I knew you would.Dear God,you took your time.

  

  Rachel Caine
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• For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when it comes to the acting, there's a burden to acting in a period film because you have to stay within the character's historical background and the gestures of certain periods.

  

  Donnie Yen
  • Character
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• We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • People
  • Education
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• And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.

  

  John Milton
  • Earth
  • Hung
  • Self-balanced